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Show BIG CROWDS GREETTEDDY Colonel Talks In Missouri Mis-souri Says Hadley Is a Progressive Joplln, Mo., Sept. 2l. Governor Herbert Hadloy of Missouri, in the opinion of Colonel Roosevelt, as he expressed it yesterday, will Join tho Progressive party In the national campaign. cam-paign. I not merely hope, but believe," eald Colonel Roosevelt, "that Governor Hadley will yet decide to stand with us.' Colonel Roosevelt saw nothing ot the governor during his trip through this state. Beginning tho day in Kansas, Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt came Into Missouri and spoke at Springfield and Joplln, with a number of short speeches from the train at other points. He attacked attack-ed the Republican national committee, commit-tee, saying that it bad separated forever for-ever the people from the Republican party and had "boarded up the party until you could not get into it with a jimmy,' He told the people in Speaker Champ Clark's home state that Mr. Clark had been beaten In the Democratic Demo-cratic convention although he had beaten Governor Wilson In the primaries. pri-maries. The people of Missouri came out in crowds to hear Colonel Roosevelt They greeted him with cheers apd Bull Moose calls and the colonel ha. I trouble to make himself heard. In the crowd at Lamar, Mo , there was a man with a huge banner bearing the words, "We want Taft; let well enough alone " The banner attracted Colonel Roosevolt's attention Bending over the railing of his car be pointed to the man with the banner and said: Strtlrn flnnrl "Any man who supports the receiver receiv-er of stolen goods stands on a level with the receiver of the stolen goods. He is a dishonest man and is unfit to associate with honest men." As the train drew out Col. Roosevelt Roose-velt called to the crowd, "Good-by, honest men." When the colonel reached Springfield Spring-field he found another Taft banner and saw n number of men wearing Taft badges. "I have noticed several Taft badges badg-es in your town," he said In his speech. "And they are the appropriate appropri-ate color of yellow. There never was a yellowor performance than that of the Republican managers -at the Chicago Chi-cago convention, and the badges are Just the right color. The man Avho puts one on shows that he has a yellow yel-low streak somewhere." Colonel Rooseelt then spoke of Governor Hadley. "I wish to express my appreciation," raid he, "of the way Missouri stood by me in tho primaries and the way a man I have always admired Governor Gov-ernor Hadley stood by me 1 not only hope but believe that Go;ornor Hadloy Had-loy will decide to stand with us. 1 hold that no honest mnn has the right to stand with the men who atolo tho nomination from the people in the Republican convention last June." The streets of .Toplin were crowded when Colonel Roosevelt reached hero last night There was a parade headed head-ed by several hundred zinc miners and a drum corps The colonel attacked at-tacked the Republican national committee com-mittee in his speech here. Break With People. "The Republican national committee commit-tee last Juno." he said, sundered tho partner-ship between the Republican party and tho people. Now it serves notice upon tho pcoplo that they never again will be admitted to partnership. "Some people say wo should stay in the party and punish thorn from the inside. Stay in the party! Why, the people can't got into the party. The national committee has boarded up the party until you could not get In with a jimmy. Recently tho national na-tional committee has passed rules explicitly ex-plicitly stating that It will override tlio primary laws of the states. Tho committee Is composed or fifty-thrco men, most of them shady. "All of them?" aunan in the crowd shouted. "Well, pretty near all." the colonel said 'There were just about enough of the other kind to have saved Sodom and Gomorrah. Any man who stays in the Republican Repub-lican party can have uo share four v'cars from now in the nomination ot the candidate for president except as i these fifty-throe mou, most of them ohady, choose to permit, i "The Demon atic platform and tho utterances of Mr. Wilson both show-that show-that the success of the Democrnts means plunging the country into industrial in-dustrial chaos. We propose to pah3 prosperity around. If Mr. Wilson's program Is adopted there won't be any prosperity to pasK around." Colonel Roosevelt left last night for Oklahoma. |